AMD 32nm CPUs 16cores 8core beats Intel's now

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http://www.amd.com/us/products/serv...atform/6200/Pages/6200-series-processors.aspx

AMD Opteron™ 6200 Series Processors
Overview
AMD proudly presents the new AMD Opteron™ 6200 Series—the world’s first and only 16-core x86 server processor with the highest core density for incredible scalability to handle demanding multi-threaded workloads such as cloud computing, virtualization, high-performance computing (HPC), databases and business applications.

The innovative modular architecture helps pack in more cores, making it the natural choice for heavy-threaded cloud computing environments and enterprise applications that demand outstanding performance and scalability.


http://products.amd.com/pages/Opter...=&f5=&f6=G34&f7=B2&f8=32nm&f9=&f10=6400&f11=&

Fastest clock for 6200 is 3.3MHz

Then for consumer's latest is FX series up to 8 cores upto 4.2GHz

http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/processors/amdfx/Pages/amdfx-product-brief.aspx

AMD FX Processor Product Brief

AMD FX Processors unlock maximum, unrestrained processing performance for extreme responsiveness you can see and feel.



Maximum Performance

The industry’s only 8-core desktop processor
Overclock with easy to use AMD Overdrive™ and AMD Catalyst Control Center™ software suites1
Supreme power available from virtually every core configuration - also available in 6- and
4-core variants
Aggressive performance for mega-tasking and intensive applications like video editing and
3D modeling

Innovative Architecture

The industry’s first and only native 8-core desktop processor for unmatched multitasking and pure core performance with all new “Bulldozer” architecture
New 32 nanometer die shrink designed to reduce leakage for improved efficiency, increased clock rate headroom and better thermals
Can deliver more cores and more performance without raising the power requirements

Industry Leading Price Per Performance

Unlocked processors allow the maximum tunable performance1
AMD Turbo CORE Technology dynamically adjusts performance to give you the best experience, no matter what you are doing
Get superior performance at a competitive price with unlocked technology1


http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/processors/amdfx/Pages/amdfx-model-number-comparison.aspx

AMD FX Processor Model Number and Feature Comparison
AMD FX Processors
Model Number Frequency Total L2 Cache L3 Cache Packaging Thermal Design Power CMOS Technology
FX 8150 3.6/4.2 GHz 8MB 8MB socket AM3+ 125W 32nm SOI
FX 8120 3.1/4.0 GHz 8MB 8MB socket AM3+ 125W 32nm SOI

FX 8100
3.1/3.7 GHz 8MB 8MB socket AM3+ 95W 32nm SOI
FX 6100 3.3/3.9 GHz 6MB 8MB socket AM3+ 95W 32nm SOI
FX 4100 3.6/3.8 Ghz 4MB 8MB socket AM3+ 95W 32nm SOI

AMD64 Technology
Yes
Simultaneous 32- & 64-bit computing Yes
L1 Cache (Instruction + Data) per core 128KB (64KB + 64KB)
L2 Cache (1MB per core) 8MB or 6MB or 4MB
L3 Cache 8MB (shared L3)
HyperTransport™ Technology
HyperTransport™ Technology up to 4000MT/s full duplex, or up to 16.0GB/s I/O Bandwidth
Integrated DDR3 Memory Controller Yes
Memory Controller Width
128-bit
Type of Memory Supported Up to DDR3 1866
Memory Bandwidth Up to 21 GB/s dual channel memory bandwidth
Total Processor-to-system Bandwidth (HyperTransport plus memory bandwidth) Up to 37 GB/s
Process Technology 32 nanometer, SOI (silicon-on-insulator) Technology
Packaging AM3+
Thermal Design Power 125W, & 95W
Manufacturing Sites GLOBALFOUNDRIES Dresden, Germany

 

[uncleyap]

http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/56181-cray-launches-hybrid-supercomputing-system

Cray launches hybrid supercomputing system
Posted on May 25, 2011 - 10:39 by Aharon Etengoff
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Cray has introduced a hybrid supercomputing system that features key components from both AMD and Nvidia.

Dubbed XK6, the supercomputer combines Cray's Gemini interconnect, AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors and Nvidia Tesla 20-Series GPUs to form a tightly-integrated system upgradeable to more than 50 petaflops (quadrillions of operations/second) of raw compute power.

Cray launches hybrid supercomputing system
According to Cray VP Barry Bolding, XK6 will help increase developer productivity with a unified x86/GPU programming environment that offers tools, libraries, compilers and support for third-party software.

"By combining AMD Opteron processors with Nvidia GPUs, the compute node in the Cray XK6 system gives users the option to run applications with either scalar or accelerator components," Bolding explained.

"[Together] with [our] Linux Environment, the result is a fully integrated Cray supercomputer which blends scalable hardware, software and a network. Customers will be able to utilize the capabilities of a multi-purpose supercomputer designed for the next-generation of many-core, high performance computing (HPC) applications."

So, what will the XK6 be used for, exactly?



Well, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) is Cray's first customer for the hybrid system.

As expected, XK6 will support CSCS scientists working in diverse fields such as weather forecasting, climatology, chemistry, physics, material sciences, geology, biology, genetics, experimental medicine, astronomy, mathematics and computer sciences.



"Given the remarkable interest in GPU technology from the Swiss computational science community, it is essential CSCS adopt this technology into its high-end production systems soon," said CSCS director Professor Dr. Thomas Schulthess.

"However, we are not looking for another GPU based stunt to place high on any Top500 lists. The Cray XK6 promises to be the first general-purpose supercomputer based on GPU technology, and we are very much looking forward to exploring its performance and productivity on real applications relevant to our scientists."

 

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http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2011-05-24/cray_unveils_its_first_gpu_supercomputer.html

May 24, 2011
Cray Unveils Its First GPU Supercomputer

Michael Feldman

Cray has released the details of its GPU-equipped supercomputer: the XK6. The machine is a derivative of the XE6, an AMD Opteron-based machine that the company announced a year ago. Although Cray is calling this week's announcement the XK6 launch, systems will not be available until the second half of the year.

Cray's pitch for the XK6 is that it enables applications to be productive with GPUs at scale. According to Barry Bolding, vice president of Cray's products division, they are unique in the GPU computing space because of their long-term commitment to heterogeneous computing and their track record for building productive petascale systems. In addition, he points out that Cray has a legacy of experience with vector-based supercomputing and their associated compilers, most recently with their X2 super, aka "Black Widow."

Hardware-wise, though, the XK6 is not that different from its CPU-based brethren. The blade is basically a variant of the XE6, replacing four of the eight AMD Opteron sockets with NVIDIA Tesla GPU modules. Each four-node blade consists of two Gemini interconnect chips, four Opteron CPUs, and four NVIDIA Tesla 20-series GPUs. The Tesla in this case is the X2090, a compact form factor of the M2090 module that was introduced last week. Like the M2090, the X2090 sports a 665 gigaflop (double precision) GPU, 6 GB of GDDR5, and 178 GB/second of memory bandwidth. A XK6 cabinet can house up to 24 blades (96 nodes), which will deliver something in the neighborhood of 70 teraflops.

{AMD Opteron is at center of blade card under the copper heatsink}

Each XK6 node in the blade pairs a single X2090 GPU with an AMD Interlagos CPU (Opteron 6200), along with 16 or 32 GB of 1600 MHz DDR3 memory. That's a rather CPU-rich configuration for a GPU-based server, given that many commodity clusters use two, four, or even eight graphics devices per x86 processor. And in many cases those processors are not top-of-the-line Xeons or Opterons.

According to Bolding, their thinking here is that not all supercomputing workloads are able to take maximum advantage of the GPU's capability, so they've opted for a fairly conservative processor mix. "We really envision some applications spending a considerable amount of time running on just the x86 portion of the system," he told HPCwire. "So we really want to have a balance between scalar and accelerator."

On the other hand, some customers are likely to have applications that are already highly tuned for GPUs, and in this case would want a system with a higher GPU:CPU ratio. Bolding says, for those users they are willing to build custom machines with a richer GPU configuration, but it would not be the standard XK6 and would entail more than just a tweak to those blades.

Besides the hardware, the XK6 will inherit software stack and programming environment from the XE6, including the Cray Linux Environment (CLE). Added on top will be GPU-specific libraries and tools like NVIDIA's CUDA SDK for programming the Tesla components. GPU support will also be provided by some of the third-party software that Cray currently resells, like the PGI compilers. The PGI compiler suite has already been extended to generate code for GPUs, and is being integrated and tested with the XK6 . The CAPS enterprise HMPP product for GPUs is also available, but unlike PGI is not currently part of XK6 test suite, and is not being resold by Cray.

Cray also will be developing additional GPU compilers, runtime libraries, and tools, as well as bringing in third-party software, such as EM Photonics' CULA library, to make the environment richer and more productive. The idea here is to bring GPU acceleration in line with its Adaptive Supercomputing approach. The ultimate goal is to be able to write source code that could automatically be transformed to run on either CPUs, GPUs or some mix of the two. The goal is not just to deliver performance, says Bolding, but to "get your codes to better performance faster."

To propel that vision, Cray is developing its own OpenMP-based compiler that will be targeted for GPU acceleration. This is a higher-level programming model than CUDA, using special directives within the application source to generate GPU code, much like what is available from PGI today. Unlike that offering however, the OpenMP version from Cray is based on standardized OpenMP directives designed to address hardware accelerators. A pre-production version will be available to selected customers, says Bolding, and will support both Fortran and C.

The directives-based programming tools for GPUs is a key part of Cray's strategy to turn the XK6 into a productive GPU machine, and an attempt to differentiate it from the current crop of GPU-equipped clusters. Bolding says they expect to get the majority of performance available from lower level programming environments like CUDA, but in a much more productive and portable environment. And even though Cray is developing an OpenMP compiler, their overarching goal is to provide a standard, high-level programming environment that is portable across accelerators. "We really believe that a good programming model has to be hardware independent," said Bolding.

The whole idea of GPUs in supercomputers, of course, is to accelerate codes amenable to data parallelism. One application set Cray envisions for these supers is weather and climate modeling, an area the company has been particularly successful in. For weather prediction, code acceleration can be especially critical, given the requirement is to deliver accurate results in real time. And for this application, model accuracy is directly related to floating point horsepower.

For example, it is estimated that for a weather forecasting model with a horizontal grid granularity of 40 km, one would need 0.4 petaflops. But to refine that granularity to 10 km, one would need a 20 petaflop system. The floating point requirements are similar for providing greater levels of granularity in climate simulations, but without the need to deliver results in real-time. Although these codes scale well enough on CPUs, the prospect of buying a system with 50 times as many processors to deliver more accurate results is daunting from both an upfront cost basis and the ongoing expense of powering such a system.

Today, the most feasible way to accomplish this level of performance boost is with accelerators. Not that GPUs are particularly cheap. An X2090 is likely to be four to five times as expensive as a top-of-the-line Opteron. But since a 20-series Tesla delivers about 10 times the raw floating point performance at only about twice the power consumption, a GPU solution makes sense as long as the codes can extract those extra FLOPS.

Once you've made the initial outlay, though, the XK6 is relatively easy to upgrade. According to Bolding, the next-generation GPUs, such as the future Kepler parts, will be able to be inserted into existing machines with just a module swap on the blade. Once those next-gen GPUs are available, Cray estimates these supercomputers will be able to scale up to 50 peak petaflops.

Also, one doesn't have to build a pure XK6 machine. The GPU blades can be mixed into existing XE6 configurations, which themselves can be constructed from the older XT6 systems via the insertion of the Gemini interconnect.

Cray's first XK6 order represents such an upgrade. The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) will use their existing XE6m system as the foundation for a multi-cabinet Cray XK6. The system is to be used to support scientific research in weather forecasting, climatology, chemistry, physics, material sciences, geology, biology, genetics, experimental medicine, astronomy, mathematics and computer sciences.

For the Swiss or anyone else to experience all this GPU goodness, they will have to wait for at least a few months. While the availability of the X2090 coincides with that of the M2090 announced last week, AMD's Opteron 6200 isn't expected to hit the streets until Q3. Whether Cray has other dependencies associated with availability, Bolding wouldn't say.

Cray, of course, could have constructed a GPU machine last year based on the Magny-Cours CPU (Opteron 6100) and X2070 GPU. HP, IBM, SGI, and practically every other HPC cluster vendor came up with a GPU offering in 2010. But according to Bolding, the XK6 is a more thought-out approach and will be the more productive machine.

"We could have come out with something earlier that wasn’t a complete Cray product, in other words, just a bunch of hardware and a mish-mash of open source software, but we chose not to," he said. "Our best mapping of a complete HPC product to the market aligned with the current Cray XK6 timeframe."

"We're not first to the party here, but we're hoping we're the best dancer," he added.

 

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UncleYap, you shld keep this as a top secret and not leaking out to the public. Cause LKY present processor is running on Intel Core i7 after upgraded from the old Intel Core 2 Duo.

But sadly the present Intel Core i7 is not working very well with him as he is talking rubbish recently without processing well in his Intel i7 which resulted in the lost of Aljunied GRC.

If he goes and upgrade his processor again to this AMD CPU 16 cores, I am worried that he'll send Singapore into a destruction mode which more rubbish will comes out from his mouth and made more enemies for Singapore.

Shit! Should have send a virus to his processor so as to cause it to breakdown so that he can rest his processor permanently and Singapore will enjoy peace, progress and prosperity when his big mouth is shut for good.

 

[uncleyap]

UncleYap, you shld keep this as a top secret and not leaking out to the public. Cause LKY present processor is running on Intel Core i7 after upgraded from the old Intel Core 2 Duo.

But sadly the present Intel Core i7 is not working very well with him as he is talking rubbish recently without processing well in his Intel i7 which resulted in the lost of Aljunied GRC.

If he goes and upgrade his processor again to this AMD CPU 16 cores, I am worried that he'll send Singapore into a destruction mode which more rubbish will comes out from his mouth and made more enemies for Singapore.

Shit! Should have send a virus to his processor so as to cause it to breakdown so that he can rest his processor permanently and Singapore will enjoy peace, progress and prosperity when his big mouth is shut for good.

Lky is very crippled already 10X worse than MSK. His CPU is recycled too many times. Kah-Lang-Guu-Nee also don't collect liao. Next destination is Mandai crematorium for sure.:p

 

[uncleyap]

http://investors.cray.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98390&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1412822

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Cray Releases Latest Version of Its Linux Operating System Equipped With New Cluster Compatibility Mode

SEATTLE, WA and DEARBORN, MI, Apr 14, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --At the 2010 High Performance Computing (HPC) User Forum in Dearborn, Michigan, global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced the release of the latest version of its Cray Linux Environment -- the production petascale operating system for the company's line of Cray XT supercomputers. This third generation of the Cray Linux Environment includes the introduction of Cluster Compatibility Mode, allowing Cray XT supercomputers to run applications from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) without modifications. ....

Remember good computers only runs Linux not MS! Otherwise they becomes only junks.

 

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The datacenter is a crazy place to record any video like this. The cooling fan noise cause you hearing damages. And best is to wear ear-plugs!


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It has 224,256 x86-based AMD Opteron processor cores,[2] and operates with a version of Linux called the Cray Linux Environment:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_(computer)

 

[flkyflky]

UncleYap, you shld keep this as a top secret and not leaking out to the public. Cause LKY present processor is running on Intel Core i7 after upgraded from the old Intel Core 2 Duo.

But sadly the present Intel Core i7 is not working very well with him as he is talking rubbish recently without processing well in his Intel i7 which resulted in the lost of Aljunied GRC.

If he goes and upgrade his processor again to this AMD CPU 16 cores, I am worried that he'll send Singapore into a destruction mode which more rubbish will comes out from his mouth and made more enemies for Singapore.

Shit! Should have send a virus to his processor so as to cause it to breakdown so that he can rest his processor permanently and Singapore will enjoy peace, progress and prosperity when his big mouth is shut for good.

LKY's era:

 

[uncleyap]

Already told Sam that the best solution for his server is to have AMD Opteron multi-core. It is screwed today again for 1 hour! :(

If he used this CPU won't be screwed like this.